The Sosnovaya Maza hoard was discovered by chance in the Saratov region in the Lower Volga in 1901 without any archaeological context. Based on the sickle form and the metal composition–copper with an elevated level of iron–so called Sosnovaya Maza type of sickles was singled out. The comparative analysis of the production technology and the alloying and lead isotope composition of the Sosnovaya Maza type of sickles found in the Volga region, in the Urals and the northern Kazakhstan sites helped obtained more data on the metalworking of this period which became a wide spread activity and required search of new deposits and new sources of surplus.

The tracewear study assessed that all sickles were cast in a univalve mold with a flat lid. The ICP-MS analysis determined a rather high heterogeneity of the hoard item elemental composition as well as significant variability in the level of trace elements in the metal. Research experiments through smelting of chalcopyrite raw material and native copper from the Osenneye copper pyrite deposit in Ural melt was conducted, the copper obtained in general correspond to the copper composition of the Sosnovaya Maza tools.

Significant variability of the isotope ratios of lead isotopes of Sosnovaya Maza hoard items confirms our hypothesis that raw material came from several ore sources: copper pyrite deposits in the southern Urals (the Trans-Urals and the northern periphery of the Urals-Mugodzhary region); Late Permian oxidized ores of the Urals from the Kargaly (Sakmar-Samara region) mining; and the metallurgical region and deposits characterized by the very radiogenic ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb, localization of which at the moment does not seem possible. The analyses of the Alekseyevskoye items imply that it might be northern Kazakhstan.

The ¹⁴C date obtained is used as a chronological marker for the Sosnovaya Maza type sickles and the entire Sosnovaya Maza hoard. This enabled us to narrow down the time interval during which such sickles made from ferrite copper were used and date the hoard to 1400–1300 calBC. The study identified the role of new metalworking provinces located in the eastern part of the Eurasian world.

Sosnovaya Maza 宝藏是 1901 年在伏尔加河下游的萨拉托夫地区偶然发现的，没有任何考古背景。根据镰刀的形状和金属成分——含铁含量高的铜——所谓的 Sosnovaya Maza 镰刀被挑选出来。对伏尔加地区、乌拉尔和哈萨克斯坦北部遗址发现的 Sosnovaya Maza 镰刀的生产技术、合金化和铅同位素组成的比较分析，有助于获得更多关于这一时期金属加工的数据，并得到广泛传播活动和需要寻找新的存款和新的盈余来源。

追踪磨损研究评估了所有镰刀都是用平盖的单瓣模具铸造的。ICP-MS 分析确定了囤积物品元素组成的相当高的异质性以及金属中痕量元素水平的显着变化。对乌拉尔熔体中Osenneye 黄铁矿矿床中的黄铜矿原料和原生铜进行熔炼研究实验，得到的铜与Sosnovaya Maza 工具的铜成分基本一致。

Sosnovaya Maza 囤积物铅同位素同位素比的显着变化证实了我们的假设，即原材料来自几个矿石来源：乌拉尔南部（跨乌拉尔山脉和乌拉尔-穆戈扎里地区北部外围）的黄铁矿铜矿；Kargaly（Sakmar-Samara 地区）采矿的乌拉尔晚二叠世氧化矿石；^{以及以放射性很强的208} Pb/ ²⁰⁴ Pb为特征的冶金区域和矿床，目前似乎不可能对其进行定位。对 Alekseyevskoye 项目的分析表明它可能位于哈萨克斯坦北部。

获得的¹⁴ C 日期用作 Sosnovaya Maza 型镰刀和整个 Sosnovaya Maza 宝藏的时间标记。这使我们能够缩小使用这种由铁氧体铜制成的镰刀的时间间隔，并将囤积的日期定为 1400-1300 calBC。该研究确定了位于欧亚世界东部的新金属加工省份的作用。